On 2016-05-09 16:34, Sven Barth wrote: > MS-DOS and Win16 where memory restrictions are much more likely to arise.
Fair enough. Then use UTF-8 (instead of UTF-16) as the default (or only) encoding for the RTL. UTF-8 memory usage is on-par with AnsiString (FPC 2.6.4 and earlier) for MS-DOS and Win16 targets - or at least it should be (the first 255 characters of UTF-8 are single byte encoded). I fully understand there are a lot of decisions to be made by the Core FPC Team. But these Unicode and RTL discussions have been going on for 3-5 years now, and still the team is undecided about which direction to take for the RTL. This doesn't bode a lot of confidence for us or any company that would like to invest and use Free Pascal exclusively. Bite the bullet and make a decision - and least then I and other contributors know where and what to contribute towards. This state of limbo is not good. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
